Antiquity depicted as part of a discourse: from the first European travellers to the DAESH propaganda
European travellers and archaeologists of the xviiith and xixth centuries wrote works in which they narrate their journeys to Greece and Middle East, usually including drawings and lithographs of the antiquities they described: a concrete monument, sculpture or relief or an entire “landscape of rui...
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2020
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | European travellers and archaeologists of the xviiith and xixth centuries wrote works in which they narrate their journeys to Greece and Middle East, usually including drawings and lithographs of the antiquities they described: a concrete monument, sculpture or relief or an entire “landscape of ruins”. For example, Sir Austen Henry Layard published in 1849 Nineveh and its remains and included in the frontispiece of the first volume a drawing of the archaeological works carried out (fig. 1). ... |
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